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About Cool Silly

Cool Silly is a Taiwanese-American mainstream pop duo consisting of producer/singer Tone (仲維軍) and rapper/actor Leeway(藍力威). Renowned artist Tone (仲維軍) formed this band after releasing his first debut album titled “我的6:57am” (My 6:57 AM), and recruited his good friend Rapper/actor Leeway (藍力威) to form Cool Silly. Cool Silly’s song ‘Fly’ is the official 2010 Taipei Flora International Exposition theme song. In late 2010, Cool Silly wrote and produced a song to reflect the beauty and hope of Taipei City, which later became the theme song of the heavily promoted MyWish campaign. The resulting tune, “Light Up Your Dreams”, was distributed as an EP single in Apple Weely Magazine and promoted on internet channels like Sina.com and Facebook. In 2011, because the band decided that Rayray’s musical style is more suitable on her own, Cool Silly became a duo consisting of Tone and Leeway. Rayray later on pursued music production with her own musical style.

Tone started producing music at the tender age of 12. He took a job as a dishwasher in order to make enough money to buy his first mixer and electric guitar. By high school, he was already producing music at a professional level and was widely accepted by his peers as a “rock genius” on the guitar and studio production.

Tone released his debut album in 2006, titled “我的 6:57 AM” during his senior year at San Jose State University, where he attended on a full scholarship majoring in Electrical Engineering. Following his release, he was cast as the lead in the movie “Binary City”, an independent film that premiered in the United States later that year. Several music videos had scenes from the movie that gave Tone the image of an upcoming superstar that looks and acts like the famous actor Takeshi Kaneshiro, which brought exposure for Tone during the release of his album in Asia.

Leeway started playing violin at the age of 9, and quickly became one of the top violinists in his school district when he was in high school. He first tasted success when he won silver representing USA in a teenage world violin competition in Shanghai, China in the summer of 1996. During an interview, his teacher branded him the “Mozart of his peers”, mainly due to his quirky personality and never taking anything too seriously, as did Mozart in his days. At that time, Leeway started rapping in high school, his peers were attracted his use of satirical lyrics to poke fun at teachers he disliked.

After his graduation from California State University, Fullerton, Leeway was accepted into Western State University, School of Law. As a gift, his father allowed him to visit Taiwan prior to the start of his graduate training. However, during his vacation Leeway was offered a contract in Asian entertainment, and ended up committing to a career in Asia.

Leeway started out as a model and commercial actor in 2006, and worked as a jazz violinist for wedding events. He later landed several leads in commercials, and in 2009 landed a cameo on megastar singer/director David Tao’s new romantic musical: “暗戀 Secret Love”. While his acting career looked promising, Leeway still felt music was the passion of his life and focused most of his attention to that end.